Winifred Holtby Quotes
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
Winifred Holtby
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
Kat Graham
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
Maajid Nawaz
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
Jack Ma
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
Edgar Meyer
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
Ted Baillieu
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
J. J. Watt
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
Camille Paglia
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
Usain Bolt
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64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan Perlis
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Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Jim Carrey
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
Zac Brown Band
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I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.
David B. Coe
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Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
Will Self
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Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you."
George Jung
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What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
Hu Shih
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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
Winifred Holtby
